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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Accommodation
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Accommodation This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Accommodation
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Accommodation Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Accommodation
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald My other wife is beautiful. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Accommodation "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Accommodation
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Accommodation
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Accommodation "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Accommodation
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Accommodation Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Accommodation
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying What's new? Most of my wife. Accommodation "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Accommodation
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Accommodation In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Accommodation
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Accommodation Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Accommodation
